While traditional mochi cakes have been a celebrated part of Japanese culture for centuries, most Americans are more familiar ...

The rice is first steamed and then pounded and mashed. Mochi-pounding at a shrine in Tokyo The resulting sticky rice mass is then formed into the final mochi shape and baked or boiled. Families ...

These days, households may instead use a mochi machinesimilar to a bread machinethat kneads the steamed glutinous rice for ...